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Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Dispatch

Rickettsia spp. in Seabird Ticks from Western Indian Ocean Islands, 2011–2012

Muriel DietrichComments to Author , Camille Lebarbenchon, Audrey Jaeger, Céline Le Rouzic, Matthieu Bastien, Erwan Lagadec, Karen D. McCoy, Hervé Pascalis, Matthieu Le Corre, Koussay Dellagi, and Pablo Tortosa
Author affiliations: Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Émergentes dans l’Océan Indien, Sainte Clotilde, Réunion Island, France (M. Dietrich, C. Lebarbenchon, C. Le Rouzic, M. Bastien, E. Lagadec, H. Pascalis, K. Dellagi, P. Tortosa); Université de La Réunion, Saint Denis, Réunion Island, France (M. Dietrich, C. Lebarbenchon, P. Tortosa, A. Jaeger, C. Le Rouzic, M. Bastien, M. Le Corre); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Sainte Clotilde (E. Lagadec, H. Pascalis, K. Dellagi); Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle, Montpellier, France (K.D. McCoy)

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Table

Species and numbers of ticks collected during a study of the distribution and host specificity of Rickettsia sppin seabird ticks on 6 remote islands in the western Indian Ocean, 2011–2012

Island, host species
 Tick species
 No. ticks detected
 Detection rate, %, Rickettsia spp. (±95% CI)
Aride
Puffinus pacificus, Onychoprion fuscatus
 Amblyomma loculosum
 31
 45 (18)
Bird
O. fuscatus Carios capensis 13 8 (15)
A. loculosum
 41
 37 (1)
Europa
O. fuscatus
 C. capensis
 42
 74 (1)
Juan de Nova
O. fuscatus
 C. capensis
 43
 16 (1)
Réunion
P. pacificus C. capensis 39 59 (1)
A. loculosum
 72
 46 (12)
Tromelin
Sula sula, S. dactylatra C. capensis 23 26 (18)
A. loculosum
 14
 93 (13)
Total 318 45 (5)

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